Alois Edenhofer

Alois Edenhofer (* 1820 in Deggendorf ; † March 29, 1896 in Straubing ) was a seminar teacher for music at the teacher training institute in Straubing, church musician and composer.

Life

Alois Edenhofer was born in Deggendorf in 1820 as the son of a musician. In 1838 he graduated from the Straubing teacher training college and in the same year became a full-time parish organist at St. Jakob in Straubing. Edenhofer had expanded the knowledge and skills he had acquired in the teachers' seminar through music studies in Munich, through trips to the musical centers of Germany and through fruitful encounters with the brothers Johann Georg Mettenleiter and Dominikus Mettenleiter . Even before his appointment to the teacher training college in 1865, he was a sought-after and well-paid private music teacher. Especially in the subject "singing", the performance of the seminarians at the teacher training institute is said to have increased significantly through his work. As a result, he was promoted to seminar teacher at the teacher training institute in Straubing just four years later and as such taught singing, harmony, organ and church music for 21 years. In 1885 he was put into temporary and later permanent retirement. Even in his retirement he was organist at St. Jakob until his death on March 29, 1896, which he took over at the age of 18 and held for almost 60 years. At the teachers' seminar, Alois Edenhofer was valued by both teachers and students as a friendly, characterful and experienced musician. But he also enjoyed great admiration and popularity beyond the borders of the school and the city, both as a person and as a composer.

Works

His compositional work is mainly in the church music sector. It includes songs for all vocal genres, motets, Marian songs, some masses, requies and hymns of the Mount of Olives. His "100 Offertories for the Whole Church Year" appeared in many editions and were sung by many country choirs in the first half of the 20th century. In his time, Edenhofer was a very valued composer, whose works bear the stamp of practical usefulness. Both the line-up (often for a singing voice and organ accompaniment) and the simple, carefree style of his compositions show that Edenhofer, as a teacher of future rural school teachers, had the possibilities and requirements in mind and wanted to create useful and at the same time effective music for these simple circumstances. The name Alois Edenhofer was also valued in specialist circles. This is proven by his mention in Cyrill Kistler's elementary school teacher Tonkünstler Lexicon from 1887, which claims not to name any "local celebrities", and in the "Lexicon of Church Music" by P. Utto Kornmüller from 1895. To his students and friends include Max Filke , Utto Kornmüller , Heinrich Kaspar Schmid , Simon Breu and Adalbert Hämel .

measure up

• Mass in D op. 1
• Mass in F op. 6
• Missa in honorem S. Luciae
• Third fair

Offers

• 50 offers
• 50 new offers

Marian songs

• Ten songs in honor of the Blessed Mother Mary
• 4 Marian songs

Individual works

• Vespers for holy Christmas
• The responsories to high masses, litanies, vespers
• Requiem and Libera
• 12 sermon chants
• Oelberg devotion
• 6 evening songs
• 5 Tantum ergo and 2 Adjuva nos

literature

• Stengel, Georg: History of the teacher training institute Straubing, 1824-1924 . Straubing 1925, pp. 53, 103
• Behner, Josef: Contributions to Straubing Music History, in: Annual report of the historical association for Straubing and the surrounding area . Straubing 1941, page 48
• Tremmel, Max: Lower Bavarian Tonkünstler . Manuscript, estate
• Kistler, Cyrill: Elementary School Teacher Tonkünstler Lexicon . Bad Kissingen 1887, page 3
• Kornmüller, Utto: Lexicon of the church music art . Regensburg 1895